Real Estate

Years ago, my mother knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast...

Leverage is a key tool in every U.S. property investor’s kit. As late-night TV real estate investment gurus with courses...

This spring, my family has planted more vegetables in our garden than ever before. We don’t expect to be able...

"But haven't we done this already? “Haven't we already bought an old stone house surrounded by mud? Isn't that what...

Owning a piece of real estate in a foreign country doesn't only give you the opportunity to diversify. Depending on...

One big loss can wipe out a lot of gains. After more than two-and-a-half decades of property investing experience across...

I was an average, non-professional stock investor. I made plenty of money up until 1999—when anyone could do it—and lost...

Given a budget of US$150,000, how would you start your global property portfolio? Each year at our annual Global Property...

You do not need a jet-set budget to take advantage of the world's number-one wealth-building strategy. I’m talking about opportunities...

If you want to find the best beaches in Central America, follow the surfers. You don’t need to be a...

U.S. second-home markets are seeing exploding interest. It's understandable. Seems like a good time to have a second home somewhere...

Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement and...

We’re speaking this week about how to purchase real estate overseas, sharing hard-won wisdom and decades of experience to help...

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...

Properties shape us more than we know. Settling into my new apartment here in Paris stirred up memories of all...

There are two reasons to purchase real estate overseas... First, because you have moved there and you decide you want...

In a make-or-break year like 2021, it’s critical to make the smartest possible investment choices. Property is a safe bet,...

Whenever I tell people that I live in Puerto Vallarta, I hear, “Isn’t it really touristy?” The short answer is...

Renovating a property overseas is something many of us dream about. But I can't go any further without asking you...

In my mission to uncover the best deals—world-class properties in prime locations that I know will recover fast—Panama remains high...

You know, of course, that you can gain from your property purchase when there’s a strong currency advantage. But this...

This is my sixth year in Mexico, and I’ve never seen real estate action like I’m seeing now. And the...

While I feel very lucky to wake up in my new Portuguese home every morning, it took more than good...

I'm looking forward to helping MC this week's Live and Invest in Mexico Virtual Event, but, stuck over here in...

We dollar-holders have enjoyed increasing buying power abroad each year since 2013, with every year eclipsing the last. Procrastinators and...

Thinking about making an overseas property purchase can arouse feelings such as excitement, fear, anxiety, relief, and accomplishment. Even seasoned...

This is my fifth winter as a part-time expat in Mexico. After having lived and spent extended time in countries...

Durango is my favorite spot for full-time city living in Mexico. In fact, I consider this city my most exciting...

As of this writing, more than 11.5 million American and Canadians live overseas… And 2 million of them—nearly 20%–live in...

Among the new trends we faced last summer in Ireland, a country home being snapped up by a foreign buyer...

About 30 years ago, I was sitting at a palapa bar in Playa del Carmen waiting for the ferry to...

One of the best ways to generate cash flow from a property investment is through rental yields. But sometimes, keeping...

Whether you are simply exploring this beautiful Central American country, or snow-birding for the winter months, or moving on a...

I didn’t realize it at the time, but, when I bought a pre-construction apartment on Panama City’s Avenida Balboa 17...

Negotiating a real estate deal in another country—both the purchase and the sale—is likely to be different for you than...

Your most important ally when buying, selling, or renting real estate overseas is your attorney. First thing, therefore, when beginning...

White-sand beaches... warm water... year-round sunshine... and one of the healthiest diets in the world... For sun and sand lovers,...

How can you keep up with your plans of moving and/or buying property overseas in the middle of a pandemic?...

Properties in many countries have gotten dramatically cheaper, in dollar terms, thanks to favorable exchange rates. A strong dollar and...

If you’ve done any reading about living or retiring abroad, you’ve heard these words: "Rent before you buy." In fact,...

For a long time, owning a second home was reserved exclusively for the wealthy. Today that’s no longer true. You...

The term pocket money real estate is a nice way of saying properties for around US$50,000. Admittedly, it’s a bit...

Owning a second home overseas comes with a lot of benefits. But what are the best countries to buy in?...

If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital...

Owning a property overseas can mean profit... and I'd say it always means fun. It can mean living a superior...

We talk a lot about the benefits of buying property overseas and why it makes sense to buy real estate...

We rank Mexico as joint-1st in our list of the best places to live and retire overseas. Mexico has some...

We’re going to kick off today by putting two beach properties head to head. I’m not going to tell you...

Resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon—also, coincidentally, my husband—and I have been shopping the globe for real estate...

Google is generally recognized today as the answer to every question, but there are exceptions to that Internet Age fundamental...